The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-01-07
NO. II.

EOnfGSSOFs - AOlQ your eoAt9 N~'
miserable style puts me out Of concelt with
Heaveun Lord Chesterfield IN his last
moments, when he ought TO nave oeen
praying for his soul, bothered mmselA
about the proprieties Of the SICK room ana
said; "Give Dayboles chair" cfodirey
/ EneIler spent his last hours on earth IN
drawing a diagram of his own monument
ColnDare the silly and horrible departure
of such men wits the seraphic glow ON th9
face of Edward Psysou, as he SAID IN MS
last moments: "The breezeS OF Heaven
fan me. 1 float in a sea Of glory" Of,
with Paul, the Apostle, who said 81 ms las0
hour: tsI am now ready to be offered ups
and the time Of my departure IS at hand-
have fought the good fight. L have kepI
the faith Henceforth there is laid up for
me q crown of righteousness which tue
Lord, my righteous Judge, will give me-
Or compare it with the Christian death-bep
that you witnessed in your own household
Oh, my friends, this world is a false godE
1t viii consume you with the blaze IN
which it accepts your sacrifice, while the
righteous shall be held in everlasting re-
fnembranee; and when the thrones have
fallen, and the monuments have crumoledp
and the world has perished, they shall ban
quet with the conquerors Of earth and tho
hierarch of Heaven.
This is a pOod dav In which to begin a
new style of measurement. "How old art
! thouP' You see the Christian way of meas
uriug life and the worldly way OF measur-
| ing il. / leave it to you to say which IS the
wisest and best way. The wheel Of time
has turned very swiftly, and tt has hurled
US on. The Old year has gone The new
year has come. For what you and l have
been launched upon it, God only knows.
Now let ME ask you all; Have you MAIDS
| any preparation for the futures You havG
| made pre- paration for time my dear broth
er; have you made any preparation for
I ,gIt,ts grriRn IN
man on the Hudson river, in indignation,
tore up the tract which was handed to him,
and lust one word landed on his coat sleeve
tho rest of the tract being pitched into
the river-that one word aroused his SOUL
/ 1t was that one word so long, so broad, so
high, so deep -'eternity." dying woH-
an, in her last moments, said: " Cau 1T
backi' They said: ''What do you wanti"
l'1ine,'' she said; ''oau it backE Oh, it
| can not be calIed bdclCt We might lose our
fortunes and call them backs we might
| lose our health and perhaps recover IT.; we
might lose our good name and get that
back; but time gone is gone forever.
Some of you, during the past year, MACS
preparation for eternity, and it makes no
difference to you really, as to the matter OF
safety, whether you go now or 80 som0
| other year-whether this year or the next
year. Both your feet on the rock, tho
waves may dash around you. You can say;
'God is our refuge and streugth-a very
| present help" You are on the rock, and
! you may defy all earth aud hell to over
| THROW you. l congratulate you. l give you
! great Joy. 1t is happy New Year to you.
! To all Christians it is a time of gladness.
/ am glad the years are going. XOu arc COM
/ ing on nearer home. Let your countenauce
! light up with the thought: Nearer home.
Now, when one can sooner get 20 the CEN
/ ter of things, is he not to be congratulated
/ Who wants to be always in the freshman
! class4 We study God in this world by tho
/ Biblical photograph of Him; but all
! know we can in five minutes Of interview
with friend get a more accurate idea OF
him than we can by studying him fifty
years through pictures or words. The lit
tie child that died at six months of age
knows more Of God than all Andovor, and
all Princeton, and all New Brunswick, and
/ all Edinburgh, and all the theological insti-
! tuition in Chrlstendom. IL it not better to
/ 20 up to the very headquarters OF lmowl-
! edge7
/ Does not our common sense teach US
that it is better to be at the center than to
be clear out on the rim Of the wheel, hold
! ing nervouslY fast to the tire lest we be
/ suddenly hurled into light and eternal ie-
! licity2 Through all kinds of optical lnstrll-
/ ments trying to peer IN through the cracks
! and the keyholes of Heaven-afraid that
! both doors of the celestial mansion will bg
! swung vide open before our cntranced YIs-
/ ion-rushing about among the apothecary
shops of this world, wondering If tins is
good for rheumatism and that is good Tor
/ neural gia, and something else ls good Tor a
bad cough, lest we be suddenly usheredtnto
/ a land Of everlasting health where the IN
| habitant never says: II am sick"
What fools we all are to prefer tho cir<
conference to the center What a dreadful
thing it would be if we should suddenly be
ushered from this Wintry world into tho
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pauperism OF sin and sorrow should bG
suddenly broken up by presentation Of
an Emperor's castle surrounded by parks
with springng fountains and paths, up and
down which angels Of God walk two and
two.
In 1895 tho French resolved that at
Ghent they would have kind OF musical
demonstration that had never before been
heard of. 1t would b0 made up OF the
chimes Of bells and the discharge Of can
non. The experiment was perfect sue
! oess. What with the ringing Of the bells
and the report OF the ordnance, the city
trembled and the hills shook with the
! tr1umphal march that was SIS strange as it
was overwhelming. With more glorious
accompaniment will Gods dear children go
into their high residence, when tho
trumpets shall sound and the last day has
come. At the signal given, the bells OF
the towers, and of the hght-housesi
and Of the cities, will strike
their sweetness into a last chime
that shall ring into the heavens
and float of upon the sea, joined by the
boom of bursting mine and magazine aug.
mented by all the cathedral towers Of
Heaven-the harmonie5 of earth and tho
symphonies Of the celestial realm making
up one great triumphal march, fit TO cele-
brate the ascent Of the redeemed to whero
they shall shine as stars forever and for.
ever. With such anticipations we can look
back without a single regret upon the fly
ing years, and forward with exutation 70
the time when the archangel, with one foot
on the sea and the other foot on the land,
shall swear by Him that liveth for ever and
ever, that time shall be no longer.